Commercial nuclear reactors all work pretty much the same way. Atoms of a radioactive material split, emitting neutrons.

France has successfully connected its most powerful nuclear reactor – the Flamanville 3 European Pressurized Reactor - to the national electricity grid. The Flamanville 3 EPR has now started providing ...

PARIS, Dec 21 (Reuters) - France connected the Flamanville 3 nuclear reactor to its grid on Saturday morning, state-run operator EDF said, in the first addition to the country's nuclear power network ...

All the different types of small modular reactors generate heat the same way: by splitting heavy atoms and capturing the heat into a variety of materials — like water, liquid metal or molten salt — ...

Inside a French fusion experiment, a metal more associated with lightbulb filaments than star power just did something ...

If nuclear construction has a reputation for moving slowly, Aalo Atomics is betting that the industry’s next leap looks less ...

The reactors will be used to support NASA's moon research and future missions to Mars, according to the announcement Tuesday.

Core disruptive accidents (CDAs) in sodium-cooled fast reactors represent a severe class of events in which the integrity of the reactor core is rapidly compromised, leading to the dispersal of molten ...

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